, 1887-08-20

The pain fairly drove him crazy, and in
a short time he tainted. Water was
brought from the stream and dashed over
him, and during this interval many war
riors crowded around me to see how I
was bearing up.
''Dogsi Do you think you can make
the Long Death cry like that" I shouted
at them. "Here, pull up my trousers
and see where the cowardly Sioux shot
powder into my legs. Pull off my boots
and find where the Cheyeunes applied
the fire sticks. Did I weep like a woman2
Go ask them. And when you ask that,
inquire who killed the Black Eagle, Red
Horse, Big Mountain, Great Buffalo, and
Black Feather. They will tell you, the
Long Death"
But for the presence of our or five
chiefs l should have been o for on
the spot, so excited were the young men.
By this time Sewell had ~regained his
senses, and was sobbing and wailing
again, and they went back to their sport.
A warrior approached him with a sharp
knife and slashed him in fifty different
places, each cut being deep enough to
be painful, but none of them very seri-
Gus. The gush of blood soon turned the
man into a horrible looking object, and
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they not had water at hand to throw
over him. He had screamed SO loud and
long that his voice was now entirely
gone, and the only sound he could utter
was a groan. He had long seemed un-
conscious of my presence, and 1 was
glad of this. l do not think he was in
his full senses after the burning. After
the warrior had cut and slashed with his
knife he fell back to give place to anoth-
er. This second one meant to do finer
work. He meant; as a first move, to
cut the victims tongue out, but as he
reached for it with his left hand Sewell
snapped at him like a dog, got the black
hand firmly between his jaws, and then
there was a grand uproar. Everybody
enjoyed the fix the Indian was in, and
whenever he motioned as if he meant to
use his knife they shouted to him to give
the victim fair play. Sewell held to hin
for fully five minutes, decorating the hand
like a bulldog, and then three or four
warriors seized him and made him let ge.
The bitten warrior ~relinquished the knife
to another, and during the next quarter
of an hour Sewell suffered the loss of his
nose, ears, fingers Inc lips. He shrieked
out in agony when his nose was sliced
off, but after hat he never even groaned,
n l consoled myself with the hope hat
he was dead. The Indians finally be-
came satisfied that they could get no
more fun out of him, and he was
scalped, and the faggots at his feet were
lighted to consume the body.
My time had come. There was a grand
yell from every warrior as the two guards
led me to the stake. How did l feel?
Well, 1 was recklessly~ desperate. l hated
to go without having revenge on some of
them, and, as there was no other way, l
gave them a tongue lashing. l called
them women and towards; l cited fic-
titious cases, when one hunter had licked
six of them; | c dared and defied them to
do their worst. 1 had them worked up
until they fairly screamed for my blood,
n l reasoned that the torture would not
last long. was stripped of every vestige
of clothing, bound hand and foot to the
stake, and, as in the engineers case, two
warriors made ready to shoot powder into
me. They were loading their gun when,
out from the heavy growth of cotton
woods behind the camp, came a line of
forty men on a run, N Just In the rear
of them s~eventy-five army troopers. 1
saw the men before any one else in camp.
Indeed, they were not pistol shot away
when the alarm was given. 1t was the
quickest mt bloodiest fight on record.
Six of the dismounted men pushed
straight for me, knowing 1 was likely to
be killed by some savage, and l was cut
loose and a revolver was given to me be-
fore the fight was hardly on. In ten
minutes not q living puck was left in the
camp. We killed twenty-five, and the
rest broke out of reach. Seven or eight
old men, nine or ten young fellows and
six squaws were likewise killed. We
captured n~inety-two ponies, a great lot of
powder and lead, several hundred dollars
worth of robes and dealt the tribe a blow
it never recovered from. What we could
not carry away we burned, and not an
article they could make useful was left.
New York Sun.